"Gradually, very gradually, we
saw the great
mountains sides and glaciers and
aretes, now one fragment
and now another through the floating
rifts,until far higher
in the sky than imagination had dared
to suggest the white summit
of Everest appeared." George
Mallory, 1921.
-"Lost
on Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine".
Firstbrook, Peter.1999. page 45.